Cake Quotes - Page 19

• Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Dream, Real, Miracle

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• Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.

  Michael Cunningham

  Thinking, World, Want

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• It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Past, Thinking, People

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• I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Mother, Memories, School

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• Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

  Langston Hughes

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.180, University of Missouri Press

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• I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something.

  Kim Harrison

  Smell, Hats, Breakfast

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• Kyouya my hair stylist. Mori-senpi go to the eye doctor and get him some contact lenses. -Tamaki What about me Tama-chan? -Hunny Hunny senpi. -Tamaki Yes sir! -Hunny You... go have some cake. -Tamaki It's just us Ousa-chan.Everyone else said they were too busy. . . -Hunny

  Bisco Hatori

  Eye, Doctors, Hair

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• I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Dark, Reality

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• I want you to make u and go halfzies on this cake. K? But. . . I want a piece too, so i guess we'll have to go thirdzies. . . Awwww, we're not going to be able to split the strawberry on top though. What should we do? Maybe I should just take it after all strawberries are my favorite. . . oh! I forgot to ask Hiku-chan, Kau-chan do you like strawberries? -Hunny

  Bisco Hatori

  Pieces, Splits, Want

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• They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

  Rob Thurman

  Either Or

  Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.109, Penguin

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• There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Football, Mother, Party

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• You're not looking for a partner," Ranger said. "You're looking for an enforcer. You hate to run. You must be worried about getting into that black dress. What did you eat just now? Piece of cake? Candy bar?" "Everything," I said. "I just ate everything.

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Hate, Black

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.85, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

  Jenny Downham

  Kids, Ceilings, Looks

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• ...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.

  Linda Howard

  People, Veils, Bakers

  Linda Howard (2010). “Veil of Night: A Novel”, p.139, Ballantine Books

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• Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex . . . a lot. But it's never going to replace cake.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sex, Differences, Firsts

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.220, Macmillan

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• Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.

  Richard Harris

  Rain, Sadness, Thinking

  Song: MacArthur Park, Album: A Tramp Shining

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• We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Georgia, Bethlehem, Congo

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

  Daniel Handler

  Glasses, Order, Wish

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• People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

  Helen Fisher

  People, Joy, Chocolate

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• So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

  Epictetus

  Wine, Exercise, Dust

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• I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

  Eva Green

  Want, Norway, Ends

  "Eva Green: 'Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

  Richard Simmons

  Fudge, Way, Faces

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

  Wine, White, Ideas

  "Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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• All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.

  Paul Engle

  Nuts, Black, Special

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake which emitted a curious ticking noise? Would you plunge it into a pail of water - thus insulting Soviet cuisine in general?

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Beautiful, Humorous

  W.C. Fields (2016). “Fields for President”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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